Herb Grow Guides
Grow fresh flavour close to the kitchen, or fill a sunny corner with fragrance. Find practical South African grow guides for culinary herbs and aromatic plants, from your first sowing to ongoing care.
Browse the 20 guide entries below. Each link opens at the beginning of its grow guide, where you can choose a variety or find the help you need.
Choose herbs by their identity and intended use. Aromatic plants are not all edible: lavender is listed here for ornamental use, catnip has pet-specific advice, and borage and chamomile need the safety guidance in their guides. Culinary sage is different from ornamental Russian sage.
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Basil Grow Guide
Sweet, purple, lemon, Thai and compact varieties for pots and kitchen beds.
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Borage Grow Guide
Azure Blue: star-shaped blue flowers for a sunny pollinator garden. Check the guide’s food-safety advice before any harvest.
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Catnip Grow Guide
Aromatic foliage and pale flowers, with advice for growing and supervised use around cats.
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Chamomile Grow Guide
German / Mayweed and Roman chamomile: choose the right growth form and follow the harvest-safety guidance.
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Chives and garlic chives Grow Guide
Medium Leaved chives and garlic chives for fresh leaf pickings; garlic chives do not produce a crop of garlic cloves.
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Coriander Grow Guide
Common and Slowbolt coriander, with sowing, growing and harvesting advice.
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Dill Grow Guide
Common Dill: plan for fresh leaves or a later harvest of aromatic spice seed.
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Edible flower and herb mix Grow Guide
Grow a mixed patch and identify each plant and its edible part before any kitchen use.
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Fennel Grow Guide
Smokey Bronze leaf fennel and Sweet Florence bulb fennel offer different harvests.
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Lavender Grow Guide
English and Spanish lavender for ornamental display, cutting and drying. These selections are not recommended for food or medicinal use.
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Lemon balm Grow Guide
Lemon balm and Melissa Limoncello: fragrant foliage for pots and herb beds.
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Lemongrass Grow Guide
East Indian lemongrass from seed: aromatic foliage, clump care and winter protection.
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Mertensia (oyster leaf) Grow Guide
Silver Ocean oyster leaf: a specialist perennial for cool containers, with food-safety guidance in the grow guide.
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Oregano Grow Guide
Greek oregano and wild marjoram (common oregano); wild marjoram is different from sweet marjoram.
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Parsley Grow Guide
Champion Moss Curled and Plain Flat Leaf parsley for fresh kitchen harvests.
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Rosemary Grow Guide
SimplyHerbs rosemary: start young plants and grow fragrant sprigs in a sunny, draining spot.
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Sage Grow Guide
Common culinary sage (Salvia officinalis), distinct from Russian sage and ornamental bedding salvias.
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Tarragon Grow Guide
Russian tarragon from seed, with its own flavour and growing character; it is different from French tarragon.
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Thyme Grow Guide
Summer and Winter common-thyme selections for perennial herb beds and pots.
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Ubuntuberg Herb Garden mix Grow Guide
Find the Herb Garden mix in the shared seed-mixes guide and follow the sowing advice for each component.
Ready to plan your next patch? Choose a grow guide above for sowing, establishment and care advice tailored to your herb.
